Chrome Browser Finally Comes to Android...Sort Of

Android fans have been scoffing at their mobile "Browser" ever since Chrome passed Firefox as the #1 alternative to Internet Explorer. They have been asking nay, begging, nay...pleading for Google to bring the Chrome goodness to their mobile devices....

Android fans have been scoffing at their mobile "Browser" ever since Chrome passed Firefox as the #1 alternative to Internet Explorer. They have been asking nay, begging, nay...pleading for Google to bring the Chrome goodness to their mobile devices.

Google has finally given the fans what they wanted, but only in a very small beta dosage only available to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) users.

The claim is that the Chrome Browser for Android is lightning fast and with all the bookmark and search syncing you would expect with a marriage between desktop Chrome and mobile Chrome:

- Bookmarks sync across off your browser versions (including pages/tabs left open on the desktop)
- Past Google search terms initiated from the desktop also show up in the Chrome browser history as well.

"We didn't want to just push out Chrome light," said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, in an interview. "Our goal was to get all of Chrome onto Android."

Even though all of Chrome is packed neatly in a tight Android box, not all of Android users will be able to partake initially, as this is only a beta run for those running OS 4.0 (Galaxy Nexus smartphone & Asus Transformer Prime tablet...and that's about it). So for those lucky enough to be running ICS, you can try out Chrome for Android now, for the majority of Android users...

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